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About Kilbrin

Kilbrin, Cill Bhrain in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 43 km north-west of Cork. It stands on the R580. The map gives it 23 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 151th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
43 km north-west of Cork, 214 km from Dublin
Position
52.2112° N, 8.8304° W
Roads
R580
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
23 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 15 kinds

County Cork since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

854,118330,443584,15618412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R580 running through Kilbrin.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Kilbrin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilbrin?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 43 km north-west of Cork and 214 km from Dublin, on the R580.
How big is Kilbrin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 23 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 151th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Kilbrin?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sunday Well, Edel Quinn Shrine and Ballyhass Lakes.
How do you get to Kilbrin?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R580.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
23
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
15
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q6406593). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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